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Dorinda is a breath of fresh air. Be in her company for more than a minute and you wonder what your life was like before you met her!
Dorinda’s work has generated enormous enthusiasm and critical acclaim in both Australia and overseas including the USA, Canada, the United Kingdom and Africa. Born in Ghana, West Africa, Dorinda started dancing from 4 years old until she was 16. She learned traditional forms of performance music and dance. This love of dance often conflicted with her more Westernised academic education at Ghana’s Methodist Ladies College (Wesley Girls). Aged 18, Dorinda immigrated to the United Kingdom to train first as an Ophthalmic Nurse then as a Registered Nursing Sister and then as a Dispensing Optician.
In between training, she enjoyed herself in London in the sixties periodically ‘moonlighting’ in billboard and TV commercials eg “Right Guard Deodorant”, “Heineken Beer”, “Cadbury’s”, Airlines, Soaps etc, before she eventually married an English psychiatrist and had two children, a boy and a girl.
Moving to Australia in the late 1970’s with her husband and two children, Dorinda abandoned her HealthCare aspiration to pursue a performance-oriented path. She is a teacher, a motivator, and a free spirit. She moves into a room full of people for the sole purpose of reminding them that life is for living - this is what she was put on this earth to do.
Dorinda is Australian and all that means is that she chose the country to bring up her kids and thus started to educate people in issues of acceptance and tolerance back in the days where there was little.
She started Africa in Schools, a very successful programme to bring cultural understanding to the future adults who would go on to be influential in the Australian fabric of life. She brought us all things "African" including the African Dance Troupe and a greater understanding of the fact that Africa is a continent, not a country. To this day, she is still educating, but on a much larger scale.
Dorinda burst onto our TV screens all over the world with her very successful Documentary series "A Taste of Africa" and it's subsequent international best-selling book by the same name. To this day it remains (in it's many revised forms) the most interesting and sought-after book of it's kind in the world.
She has 5 "A Taste of" series spanning the UK, US, the Caribbean and beyond and her shows are seen in over 48 countries. Her books have been translated into 5 languages and most recently Dorinda is virtual and is broadcasting her amazing talents and skills as not just a food anthropologist and author but a public speaker, a designer, an artist, a storyteller not just for kids but for all ages who love to see and hear the soul of a true free spirit.
Music springs from her as she moves, talks and communicates, but she has also released her own music on CD. Now, with the advent of the digital revolution and the speedy change to the Internet for our communication, she has her classic series available on web-TV, along with a host of other amazing talents.
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